No Gaim Sounds with Rhythmbox playing.

[Iain Young]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:47:49PM -0500, FX wrote:

> Welcome to the world of linux. Can't have two apps running sound. Well
> you can, but one of them is not going to do anything with it. Only one
> will play sound. Can be done I guess, but you have to jump through
> hoops to get it done. Trust me. I wanted to run games and TeamSpeak at
> the same time and couldn't get it done. Why I keep partition of XP for
> gaming and voice chat at the same time.
 
Not true. There are a number of ways to get multiple apps playing
sound. artsd, esd (IIRC), and jack (http://jackit.sourceforge.net)
all may help you, depending on exactly what you want, and how you want
to do it.

Jack is probably the most...abstract...but then apps need to be
specifically written for it, or use OSS (or emulation under Alsa)
and jacklaunch. Then again, artsd can be plumbed into jack anyway...


Iain